The Trial of Kevin Gregson

Czapnik killing

The paramedics who witnessed the murder of Const. Eric Czapnik told reporters at a press conference Thursday afternoon that they had to make the most difficult decision of their careers in the early morning...

Gregson Trial

Kevin Reid Gregson’s lifelong trail of violence had him shooting chickens and gophers as a boy, only to go on to terrorize humans, including his own family, with a knife and sometimes his RCMP service revolver.

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In the fall of 2011, Citizen reporter Gary Dimmock interviewed admitted cop killer Kevin Gregson in the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre. To avoid influencing the trial, the Citizen chose not to run this story until after the case against Gregson had been given to the jury for a verdict.

Anna Korutowska (Cst. Eric Czapnik's widow), during a press conference following the guilty verdict of first degree murder of Kevin Gregson, held at the Police Station, in Canada, in Ottawa, On, on March 13, 2012. Gregson, an ex-RCMP, stabbed and killed an Ottawa Police officer in 2009.

A lethally wounded Const. Eric Czapnik is seen running through the emergency room of the Civic hospital in a dramatic security camera video played at the trial of his accused killer Wednesday morning. Czapnik, his chest covered in blood, had been stabbed moments before in the parking lot in a desperate struggle with Kevin Gregson, a suspended RCMP officer who is now on trial for first-degree murder.

Kevin Gregson spoke at his first-degree murder trial for the first time Tuesday, from both the TV screen and the prisoner’s box. For more than three hours, spectators in a packed courtroom watched Gregson locked in a verbal joust with Ottawa Det. Sgt. Timothy Hodgins during an interview recorded Dec. 29, 2009, just hours after Gregson fatally stabbed Const. Eric Czapnik.

Kevin Gregson tried to find work as an armed security guard in Afghanistan after being suspended by the RCMP, his first degree murder trial heard Monday. “He interviewed very well,” security firm recruiter Jamie Teather told the court. “He was high employable.”

The story of four Ottawa paramedics and their heroic involvement in apprehending Kevin Gregson on the night he allegedly stabbed Ottawa Constable Eric Czapnik to death has been a closely guarded one. Wednesday afternoon that story finally began to be told by one of the individuals at the centre of the action.

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